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Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Description
When her mother disappears, Nigeria Jones, the daughter of the leader of a Black liberation group, searches for her, uncovering a shocking truth which leads her to question everything she thought she knew about her life and her family.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When her longtime--and long-distance-- crush, Ada, needs her help reuniting her grandmother with her own long-lost pen pal (and maybe love?), Elsie finds her plans igniting a summer of repairing broken bonds and wonders if she, too, can recover the things she's lost.
Author
Language
English
Description
While working as a server at a retirement community to get the experience he needs to attend culinary school, Tommy Dees is assigned to train the new hire, Gabe, his first crush from summer camp who doesn't remember him at all, and as old feelings resurface, Tommy tries to keep his life together as the application deadline for culinary school nears.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Vivian Apple returns home after the alleged 'Rapture' to find her devout parents gone and two mysterious holes in the roof. Vivian never believed in the Rapture, or the uber powerful Church of America. Now that she has been left behind, Vivan's quest for the truth begins--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Lora joins Castro's literacy campaign, she travels into the impoverished countryside to teach her fellow Cuban's to read and write, while sharing the dangers posed by counterrevolutionaries in the hills.
7) My good man
Author
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious assault lands the brother of his mother's late boyfriend in the hospital, Brian, a twenty-something Indigenous reporter, must pick up the threads of a life he's abandoned, returning to the Tuscarora reservation to discover the truth.
8) Stone rider
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 9
Physical Desc
325 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A young man who seeks revenge and redemption from his past joins a brutal race to win a chance to escape his dying world--
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
2013
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An Arab girl of the Sahara who wants to wear a malafa, the veiled dress worn by her mother and older sister, learns that the garment represents beauty, mystery, tradition, belonging, and faith.
Author
Publisher
Page Street YA
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
331 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A year after the tragic death of his best friend, Gage tries to move on, but the longer he ignores his grief, the more it warps from sadness into uncontrollable anger, undermining everything he is trying to do and to be.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fourteen-year-old Mia, who is trying to lead a normal life as a teenage girl in New York City, is shocked to learn that her father is the Prince of Genovia, a small European principality, and that she is a princess and the heir to the throne.
Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
When a microaggression at her wealthy Manhattan high school thrusts her into the spotlight, half-Latina/half-Korean Alejandra Kim, who feels like an outcast, must carve out a place for herself while dealing with the loss of her father.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
[2015?]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 10
Physical Desc
326 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
One boy's thirst for freedom takes him down a precarious path when he befriends the alluring, eccentric girl next door, and embraces his love of tightrope walking, while a complicated bully awakens a primal--and fatal--side that Dominic Hall never knew he had.
15) Unlocked
Author
Publisher
Zondervan
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
Ella Reynolds, head cheerleader and part of the in crowd, befriends Holden Harris, an autistic boy who is bullied at school, and takes on the popular kids at school in the process, including her boyfriend, Jake.
16) Hungry ghost
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
198 pages, 6 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
After the sudden death of her father, sixteen-year-old Valerie Chu, who is hiding an eating disorder from her friends and family, reevaluates her life, her choices and her own body as she tries to find the strength to seek help.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Effie Galanos' goals for her senior year include her navigating her way through her high school that is not really wheelchair-friendly, getting into the perfect college, and getting her crush Wilder to accompany her to the prom--but by spring she is beginning to see herself entirely differently.
Author
Language
English
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Description
Italian teenager Giovanna searches for a sense of identity and clear perspectives when she finds herself torn between the refinements and excesses of a divided Naples.
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